Bacterial sialyltransferases and their use in biocatalytic cascades for sialo-oligosaccharide production.

Sialic acids are important recognition sites in protein- and lipid-linked glycans of higher organisms and of select bacteria and protozoa. They are also prominent in human milk oligosaccharides. Defined sialo-oligosaccharides have interesting applications in chemical glycobiology and represent emerging ingredients for health-related nutrition. The growing demand for sialo-oligosaccharides has promoted developments in multidisciplinary carbohydrate synthesis, with approaches by cascade bio-catalysis having a leading role. The key synthetic step involves catalysis by sialyltransferases (EC 2.4.99.-) and consists in attaching sialic acid from a cytidine 5'-monophosphate-activated donor (CMP-sialic acid) to the nascent oligosaccharide acceptor. Sialyltransferases from bacteria, in general, show convenient properties for application (e.g., relative ease of recombinant production; high specific activity and operational stability). Here, we review salient characteristics of the bacterial sialyltransferases active on D-galactose- and N-acetyl-D-galactosamine-containing acceptors and highlight advances of their development into efficient biocatalysts. We also show integration of these sialyltransferases into multistep enzymatic cascades for sialo-oligosaccharide (e.g., sialyllactose) production from expedient substrates, using in situ formation of the CMP-sialic acid donor. We summarize functional parameters of the enzymes for CMP-sialic acid supply and analyze multi-enzymatic synthesis of sialo-oligosaccharides from a reaction engineering point of view. We discuss opportunities of sialyltransferase cascades for efficient sialo-oligosaccharide production in vitro and in vivo.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Biotechnology Advances

• Publication date

  2020-08-18

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Chemistry

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  DOI 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2020.107613PMID 32822768
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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